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20th Mar 2015

Prof Grocott takes us on an Xtreme journey with his Inaugural Lecture

Mike Grocott

Congratulations are in order to Xtreme Everest's Professor Mike Grocott, who yesterday gave his Inaugural Lecture at the University of Southampton.

Mike Grocott is the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton (UoS) and a consultant in Critical Care Medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) where he leads the the critical care research area of the UHS-UoS NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit.

Since 2006, he has been Director of the Xtreme Everest Hypoxia Research Consortium and chairs the executive board. Mike led the 2003 CASE Baruntse expedition, 2006 Xtreme Everest Cho Oyu expedition and the 2007 Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition and was one of the team who obtained blood gases near to the summit of Everest in 2007.

Titled Variable feast: from Everest to emergency surgery, Prof Grocott took the audience on a journey up to Everest looking at how Xtreme Everest studied subjects in conditions that mimic critical illness. Starting with why hypoxia is important for us to understand and how Xtreme Everest came around, to showing us results from both the 2007 and 2013 expedition which may help teach us how more people can survive critical illness.

Touching on how drugs shown to be successful in both bench top and animal studies, have failed in human studies and highlighting the work of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (the first climbers to summit Everest), as well as Reinhold Massner and Peter Habeler (first solo ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen), the lecture also included footage of the micro circulation of subjects both at sea level and at 5300 meters as well as the footage of a Sherpa's micro circulation for comparison.

To view his lecture in full, please visit here

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